Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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... lands — maps . As for the archives , they are endless - Ottoman , Venetian , Greek , Aus- trian , French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such materials , I ...
... lands — maps . As for the archives , they are endless - Ottoman , Venetian , Greek , Aus- trian , French , English , American - compiled conscientiously by gener- ations of long - departed foreign consuls . Drawing on such materials , I ...
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... lands which took him to the limits of the known world . There were prehistoric settlements in the area , but the city itself is a creation of the fourth - century BC Macedonian state . Today the association between the city and the ...
... lands which took him to the limits of the known world . There were prehistoric settlements in the area , but the city itself is a creation of the fourth - century BC Macedonian state . Today the association between the city and the ...
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... land route from the Mediterranean up into the Balkans and central Europe , down which came Slavs ( in the sixth century ) , and Germans ( in 1941 ) while traders and NATO convoys ( on their way into Kosovo in 1999 ) went in the other ...
... land route from the Mediterranean up into the Balkans and central Europe , down which came Slavs ( in the sixth century ) , and Germans ( in 1941 ) while traders and NATO convoys ( on their way into Kosovo in 1999 ) went in the other ...
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... land which guarded the entrance to the gulf itself . It needed all the divine protection it could get , however , for through the centuries its riches and location seemed to attract one invader after another . In the sea raid of 904 an ...
... land which guarded the entrance to the gulf itself . It needed all the divine protection it could get , however , for through the centuries its riches and location seemed to attract one invader after another . In the sea raid of 904 an ...
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... land over the next fourteen hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city . But frontiers are ...
... land over the next fourteen hundred years was henceforth established : a predominantly Slavic peasantry cultivated the soil and was kept under the political and economic control of non - Slav elites based in the city . But frontiers are ...
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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